Power Windows

[LT1Nova]

Has you used any aftermarket power window kits and what are your expirences? I want to put some in my 71 Nova.

[Steve1968LS2]

I installed the kit by Electric Life in my 69.. seems to work ok.. they sure do go up and down FAST.. could loose an arm if your not careful.. ;)

[ViperBlue68]

I have the the electric life kit front and rear and they work great a LITTLE fast like steve said gotta be careful good deal for the price through summit..and they give u summit bucks for buying em... my .2 cents

[Stokes]

How do the power window kits compare in weight to the stock manual units?

Chris

[69 panel]

Try this place:

http://www.a1electric.com/

I've purchased several kits from them and always satisfied with service.

[69Myway]

I am building my car with 9 parts creativity, 1 part green backs, so everthing has to be as quality as possible while being as CHEAP as possible.

Enter.....the Caprice power window conversion. I love the idea of plug and play, but couldn't stomach the expense of the full aftermarket kit including the switch kit.

So, I yanked the windows from a 1996 Caprice including the wire harness. I had to heat the inner door panel and pound the recesses flat where the stock regulator mounted. I put the Camaro tracks on the caprice regulator, drilled new holes and mounted.

The really cool thing is it even has AUTO down, and Lock out mode.

I got lazy in the rear and just installed a pair of aftermarket motors that run a cable ring around the old shaft. I figure the rear windows will be used 1/10th the time of the front, so there should be no fatique problems there at all.

Here is a picture of the door panel modified to accept the caprice regulators. The last trick will be customizing the door trim panel, but I already have some quick ideas there. Should be fairly easy and very trick.

[69Rathead]

Pretty cool! Please do post some pics when you get the panels done... Good job! May try something like that myself now that I've seen what you can do.

[Radio Joe]

Thats pretty cool and a conversion I bet alot of people would like to do. Do you have more pics of the conversion process and maybe a write up on how to do it?